So grateful and honored to support this film and its visionary team of filmmakers. May Hind’s voice be heard around the world, may her story correct the narrative and the course of history.

There's a lot I'd do differently now, just 5 years later, as I reflect on in this post. How about you? What's your aspirational film industry of the future look like? Give it a read and please share in the comments!
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Read to the end and you’ll see I have ideas. What are yours? How can public media bounce back from this attack even stronger than ever? Hit me up and let me know.

#cpb #pbs #itvs #publicmedia #substack #indiefilm

I wrote this in a fit of Monday morning catharsis, partially to contribute to the choir of voices that is thankfully stepping up and saying what public media means to them, but also, more importantly, so we can collectively process where we go from here.

We’re at theutopiastudio.substack.com

We’re building a values driven storytelling ecosystem and sharing comics and case studies on our slate of politic stories in pop culture packages to build narrative power and a better future. Join us!

We couldn’t be more honored to announce the film as the first in the Utopia Studio’s co-production slate.

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We’re so grateful to be able to support this necessary film, and the filmmakers behind it. As Kaouther says in her statement, “Cinema can resist amnesia. May Hind’s voice be heard.”

Please read Kaouther’s statement in full on how the film was made and why, below.

Alright, that’s it for now. Please check us out, the first post is live now at theutopiastudio.substack.com and we will be publishing more stories weekly. See you there. Peace.

Most importantly, Substack's a community where we can cross-pollinate the cultural strategies our world needs more than ever. So I’ll be hanging out in the comments often, hoping that you share with us as much as we’re sharing with you…

Because in times of crisis, community is always the answer.

Also, Substack can function as a digital publisher, allowing subscribers to read all our comics right there on Substack!

For one, it gives us the chance to do a deeper dive behind the scenes of some of the projects we’ve been developing across print, WebTOON, & feature film, providing case studies that we hope will be useful to others looking to travel a less traditional path to creating liberatory cultural work.

So alongside the comics & films we’re producing, we’ve also brought together a network of nontraditional funding, production, distribution & impact partners to build alternative ecosystems to the old ones. So naturally we want to share what we’ve learned. Substack is the perfect place to do that.

And it probably won’t surprise any of you out there that telling political stories to audiences at scale is only getting harder, between the illegal oppression of our communities in the streets & the legacy media institutions lining up to comply in advance with all the fascism all around us.